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First job and it allowious to have a beer after work and play softball. this is a narrative that has found quarter in republican circle, but it's a totally false narrative, is it not? >> it's completely false. i wish the woman, for example, who have children working at kentucky fried chicken making $8 an hour which as we know is 75 cents higher, more than the minimum wage and trying to figure out how they're going to feed their families at the end of the month would feel about that comment since they're worried about putting food in their children's stomachs and not a beer to their own mouths....

Floor, but should democrats and progressives be focusing their efforts on the state and local level? >> i think we have to have a two-track conversation. absolutely we have been active and c.a.p. has been active because we're going to see real results there. i do think there's a connection. the more we talk about tissues at the federal level, the more the president is nighting for them, democrats talking about them on the campaign trail. it builds pressure at the state and local level. that's one of the reasons we're having this summit. c.a.p. is co-sponsoring this summit at the white house to...

>> how important is this issue in terms of motivating women? do you think they are responding to that message about minimum wage? >> i think they are. 2/3 of workers who work for the minimum wage are women. that means when you're working for minimum wage you can be working 40 hours a week and don't even make it to the poverty line. this impacts women and families and children and women really get that. we had so many minimum wage workers who showed up at each one of the different events and told us how important it was for us to fight to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. >> you, the wh...

Obamacare is good for you? it was great? >> i would take issue with the idea that this is narrow casting about abortion and contraception. those issues matter. but what i see democrats doing which is important is really talking about women's issues as economic issues. >> absolutely. >> pushing for an increase in the minimum wage which would benefit women because they make up two-thirds of minimum wage workers. i never understand why republicans who oppose pay equity acts don't say, are rhett's coordinate, compromise on the minimum wage. >> pay equity blew up many the white house's face. they p...

Me. >> it is good for women, it is good for men, it is good for husbands, good for male children of those women. republican hypocrisy on this is really staggering. i respect ruth marcus. but againvy another liberal. kind of tone policing the democrats because maybe the rhetoric has gone a tiny bit too far on this. but the truth is republicans are against anything that could make this gap smaller. it seems to me one of the west best things you could do is raise the minimum wage. republicans say one reason there is a gap is because women are aggregated at the low end of the wage scale at low-wag...